RE: SEU vs. ? -- RPG400-L

Of course to use WDSc you need about a days worth of install time, and be
ready to install it at least twice after it doesn't work the first time. The
only person I know who gets his WDSc installed properly is Jon Paris, but I
suspect he has someone at IBM install it for him or perhaps they give him a
special build that avoids the IBM installation routines. <vbg>.
Also if you have anything less than a 1 Ghz Pentium M or anything less than
a 1.9 Ghz P4 don't bother. If you have anything less than 512 Meg of RAM
don't bother, and make sure you get one full gig of RAM soon.
With CODE/400, be prepared to have a bit of a learning perod. For some
reason IBM does not use the same menu/command terminology in virtually all
other Windows-based IDE's. Also it does not do Cut/Paste for some reason.
Having said all that, I have been trying to move to CODE/400 for about 4
months. Many of you know I wrote my own GUI-based RPG editor, CodeStudio
(www.rpgiv.com/codestudio) but have decided there isn't a strong enough
market for multiple RPG editors. So I'm trying out CODE/400 and recently
found out that it is not longer named "CODE/400". Its current name is just
"CODE". Another dumb-ass move by IBM--calling a product "CODE". I mean even
something silly like "WebSphere Code" or "WebSphere CodeEdit" would have
been better in my view. Naming it "CODE" makes no sense unless you're into
the IBM naming thing--which only IBM seems to be into lately. Okay, I
digress.
The things I like about the IBM WebSphere RPG editor for Windows and OS/2
(aka, "CODE") is that it does the syntax checking right in the editor, it
does compile on the 400 automatically (although the interface a features in
CodeStudio are a few generations ahead of CODE in this area) and it does
maintain the SEU line change dates (although I don't see much of a future in
line change dates).
Other things it does well is save to the host transparently, and locks the
member on the host, while you're editing it; just as if SEU had a hold on
it.

Bob Cozzi
Cozzi Consulting
www.rpgiv.com


-----Original Message-----
From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Bartell, Aaron L. (TC)
Sent: Monday, June 02, 2003 4:57 PM
To: 'RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries'
Subject: RE: SEU vs. ?

Only being able to see 19 lines of code at once.  In WDSc I can see 61 lines
of code.  If this was the only feature, I would use it.

There are many many more plusses, like color coding, ability to create
filters (for projects), code assist, Outlines of your program. . .  etc. . .

Aaron Bartell 

-----Original Message-----
From: Joe Giusto [mailto:jgiusto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, June 02, 2003 4:44 PM
To: 'RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries'
Subject: SEU vs. ?


Outside of a few glitches in syntax checking (and by the way it seems to
handle COBOL multiple line statements just fine), what is all that wrong
with using SEU.


 -----Original Message-----
Subject:        RE: ACK!  What happened to ...?

I really want to thank all of you for suggestions to get the last
dinosaurs to move from SEU:
- make huge monolithic programs
- Use large procedure names that continue on to the next line

:-)




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